Peafowl and hawks

[LedgeWoods]

Will free ranging peafowl be like watchdogs for hawk attacks on chickens?...or could they be next on the hawk menu?! Had my pair up until this August...no hawk problems. Within 6 weeks of them going AWOL the hawk attacks started. Trying desperately for a natural solution-I refuse to fence in the birds.

 

[MinxFox]

When I free-ranged and even with the peafowl in the pen they can spot a hawk even before you can see it. They will spot a hawk so high in the sky to our eyes it will be a little dot.

One breeder told me that one day one of her birds got caught by a hawk and the hawk had it pinned down to the ground and a group of her free-ranging peafowl ran to the rescue and pestered the hawk until it let go of the bird and flew away.

Normally when the peafowl spot a hawk they make a low gurgling squeaking noise and stare with their head tilted toward the sky. Sometimes they might make loud honking noises but a lot of times they stare up at the sky and make the low squeaking.